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psychotic

[sahy-kot-ik] / saɪˈkɒt ɪk /


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Crucially at the time I was not able to elicit acute psychotic symptoms.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

"People suffer psychotic behaviour, suffer bipolar behaviour, for many, many years... And I think people are forgetting that."

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

That so many people in Minneapolis have endangered themselves by waving phones in the faces of armed federal officers and shouting obscenities as if they were psychotic is one of many unhappy consequences.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

As much as he may have appeared psychotic, he was also romantic.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2026

She’s a buffer between me and the psychotic redheaded kid on her other side.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman




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